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• Morning meditation — Only to someone who has tasted salt.

  By Buddhism Now on 12 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Only to someone who has tasted salt can salty water be talked about, otherwise it is of no use — the person will not know the taste of salt.’

  Haechun Sunim

• Morning meditation — Most Buddhist traditions are geographical.

  By Buddhism Now on 11 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Most Buddhist traditions are geographical, but have the same origins. All come from interpretation of Buddha’s teaching with wakening at their core.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• Morning meditation — When the time is right to help someone.

  By Buddhism Now on 10 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘On occasion, when the time is right to help someone,
  Undertake it altruistically to achieve it as best you can.’

  Advice to the Yogis of Solu-Khumbu

• Morning meditation — The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is driven by ignorance.

  By Buddhism Now on 9 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is driven by ignorance, craving, and the illusion of self. When one realises the emptiness of all phenomena, including the self, this ignorance is dispelled.’

  Everyday Buddhism

• The Life and Work of Auleshi: Sherpa Buddhist Art and Adept.

  By Buddhism Now on 8 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  For followers of Tibetan Buddhism, this book offers valuable insights into a lesser-known strand of the tradition.

• Morning Meditation — The mind, when it’s not engrossed.

  By Buddhism Now on 8 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘The mind, when it’s not engrossed with the taste of pleasure or pain, is free in line with its nature.’

  Upasika Kee Nanayon

• Morning meditation — What is the resort of mindfulness?

  By Buddhism Now on 7 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘‘‘Good Gotama [Buddha], what is the resort of mindfulness?’’
  ‘The resort of mindfulness, Brahman, is liberation.’’’

  The Buddha,
  Samyutta Nikaya

• Morning meditation — If you see into your true nature.

  By Buddhism Now on 6 September 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘If you see into your true nature, upon forgetting thoughts and imaginings, you will turn the karma of ignorance into the great sea of liberation’

  Bassui Tokushō

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